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My association with UCL dates from 1970, when I enrolled as an undergraduate student at the newly established MILARS (Modern and Latin-American Studies) course. I then did my Ph.D. here and became a part-time teacher until 1980, when I joined what was then the North London Polytechnic. I was invited back to UCL in 1999 as Visiting Professor and have remained attached to the Department of Spanish and Latin American studies ever since.

Over the years, I have developed courses in feminist perspectives in literature, women's writing, families in film and fiction, and the construction of Latin American identity through painting, but the work of Borges has always been, and remains, my foremost research and publication interest.

Research Summary

Borges.

Also Humour in Latin American Fiction; Language and biculturalism; Women's writing

Teaching Summary

Literature:Special subject: Borges and Cortázar (BA and MA); Introduction to Latin American literature; The literature of the Pampas; Course on short stories, Feminist perspectives in Latin American writings; Representations of the family in Latin-American film and fiction;

Spanish Literature: Selected authors; Women Writers and Nation.

Interdisciplinary: Courses on comparative American studies,'Discourse'; European Literature, Language and Style, Europe as "Other"

Postgraduate Supervision: Supervisor and director of studies on M.Phil/PhD on Aspects of magic realism in the post-colonial novel';Supervisor of PhD on 'Appropriation and Resistance in Philippine Marian Devotion'; 'The notion of specularity in Spanish Caribbean Narrative Forms'; Argentine Women Writers.